SYNOPSIS

In the middle of today’s severe competition in the market, designing a product that appeals better to customers’ appetite is both significant and compelling. One convincing way that manufacturers come up with as a response to this unavoidable market trend is to achieve user-centeredness by designing products that are well-fitted, comfortable, and easy-to-use. To support this, considerable efforts in the field have been brought into the modelling of a digital engineering model, which can be utilized in CAD/CAM/CAE system for the integrated design and analysis of a product with the engineer. Currently, Building Information Modelling (BIM) elsewhere and in Malaysia is one of the emerging technologies to be deployed in the planning, design, construction, and facility management. The important features of BIM are that it provides an object-oriented database that is made up of intelligent objects, the 3D representation of integrated information, and a relational database that is interconnected. The deployment of computer-based technology in construction, particularly BIM, can make the industry more efficient, effective, flexible, and innovative while improving the national productivity. This talk will present the state-of-the-art of CAD/CAM/CAE technology and their useful applications for engineer in the BIM implementation.  


BIODATA OF SPEAKER

Ir.  Dr.  Tan  Chee Fai graduated with Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical) (2000)   and   M. Sc. (Manufacturing  Systems  Engineering)  (2002)  from Universiti  Putra  Malaysia  (UPM),  as  well  as  PhD in Industrial Design Engineering  (2010) from Eindhoven  University  of Technology (TU/e), the Netherlands.  He  is  a  registered Professional Engineer (Mechanical) with Board of  Engineers,  Malaysia  (2006)  and  a member of Institution of Engineers,   Malaysia  (2005). Currently, he is a Senior Lecturer  at Department  of  Design &Innovation, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Universiti  Teknikal Malaysia  Melaka (UTeM).  He  is actively  involved  in teaching  and  learning, publication,  consultation  as  well as research, design  and  development  activities.  His  field  of  expertise covers the aspects of   mechanical   engineering,   industrial  design  engineering, artificial  intelligence, transportationengineering, industrial automation and human-technology interaction design. He has led numerous university and Ministry of Education funded projects as well as international funded projects.  He  is  a member  of Integrated Design Research Group (IDeA), Centre of Advanced Research on Energy (CARE) at UTeM. He has more than100  publications in international and local journals and conference proceedings  related  to mechanical engineering. He is a Professional Engineer registered with Malaysia Road Transport Department (JPJ). He has been actively  involved  in The  Institution of Engineers, Malaysia since 1998, and served as member of various committees such as Committee Member, Council Member, Hon. Sec./Treasurer  of  Mechanical  Engineering Technical Division and is currently Vice Chairman of IEM Melaka Branch.